South Jefferson, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jefferson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12167. It lies near Mine Hill. The Survey maps it on the Stamford quadrangle.

South Jefferson within Schoharie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Jefferson, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of South Jefferson, surveyed 1904

On record in South Jefferson

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Stewart House and Howard-Stewart Family Cemeterylisted 2012

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1904 USGS Hobart quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1945 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1946 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of South Jefferson between 1993 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 June 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jefferson	2.7 miles	17
South Gilboa Station	2.9 miles	17
South Gilboa	3.5 miles	17
East Jefferson	3.7 miles	17
Vorman Corners	4.0 miles	17
West Jefferson	4.3 miles	16
Eminence	5.6 miles	17
Arabia	6.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973095. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.